Wellbeing outcomes in Prince of Wales Hospital staff

This is a 12-week trial involving a 7-week intervention with 2 arms and 4 measurement occasions. The trial will recruit staff from Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney (primarily nurses, but anyone employed at the hospital will be eligible to join), and the aim will be to measure the participants' levels of wellbeing over time and to determine whether the 7-week intervention is effective at increasing their wellbeing. All participants will complete an online survey in week 0 (i.e. one week before the intervention begins), week 4 (mid-intervention), week 8 (one week post-intervention), and week 12 (four weeks post-intervention). Each participant will be randomly allocated to one of the two arms. The two arms will run simultaneously, from week 1 to week 7, and each arm will comprise around 100 participants. The intervention arm will involve a 7-week program of weekly one-hour online seminars (webinars). During the 7-week program, the intervention participants will watch each weekly webinar. They will have the option of attending each webinar live (via Zoom) or watching a recording of the webinar later in the week (in their own time). Each webinar will focus on one area of life (e.g. sleep, exercise, nutrition) that is related to wellbeing. Each webinar will provide background scientific information about its area, and then provide suggestions on how to make improvements within the area, with the goal of increasing the participants' wellbeing. Thus, the intervention arm will provide knowledge + solutions. The webinars will be delivered by two presenters. One is a Nurse Educator with a Master degree in Adult Education and extensive experience in coaching, educating, and training, and the other is a Research Assistant with a Ph.D. in Psychology and extensive experience in tutoring, teaching, lecturing, and counselling. At each measurement occasion, the participants will complete an online survey measuring their levels of wellbeing, as well as other relevant variables, including depression, anxiety, and stress. The surveys will also ask the participants about their levels of adherence to the program (i.e., which of the webinars they have watched, and whether they watched each webinar partially or in full). Attendance of live webinars will also be recorded via Zoom.